Leonharti Fuchsii medici, Primi de stirpium historia co[m]mentariorum tomi viuae imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] formam contractae, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissimè expressae : ut quicunque rei herbariae radicitus cognoscendae desiderio tenentur, eas uel deambulantes uel peregrinantes in sinu co[m]modius gestare, adq[ue] natiuas herbas conferre queant.

Leonharti Fuchsii medici, Primi de stirpium historia co[m]mentariorum tomi viuae imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] formam contractae, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissimè expressae : ut quicunque rei herbariae radicitus cognoscendae desiderio tenentur, eas uel deambulantes uel peregrinantes in sinu co[m]modius gestare, adq[ue] natiuas herbas conferre queant.

De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

Basileae : [Michael Isengrin], 1549.

[16], 516 p. : chiefly ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (8vo)

Originally published in Basel, 1545.

Publisher's device on title page Cf. Grimm, H. Deutsche Buchdruckersignete des XVI Jahrhunderts, 1965, p. 133.

Signatures: A⁸, a-2i⁸, 2k².

Illustrated with 516 full-page woodcuts, reduced copies, in reverse of the woodcuts by Veit Rudolf Specklin after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albrect Meyer which appeared in the 1542 Isengrin ed. of Fuchs's De historia stirpium. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), F3245
BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 326
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 661

Switzerland -- Basel.

234- 370q

Folger copy imperfect: gatherings A, a-h, leaves l7-8, m7-8, q7-8, s2-3, s5, y3-6, z1, z8, gathering 2a, leaves 2b2, 2b7, and gatherings 2c-2k, lacking.

Early manuscript notes in English, Latin and French.